In the US, the NSF and NIH both have public access policies requiring that published papers resulting from taxpayer-funded research be made available free of ch

In the US, the NSF and NIH both have public access policies requiring that published papers resulting from taxpayer-funded research be made available free of charge no more than 12 months after publication. It should be available immediately, of course, particularly since the official "publication date" can be delayed many months after the article is actually available. But taxpayers do get what they paid for in a somewhat reasonable time frame. The part where academic institutions provide publishers with content for free, then buy the same content back, is the insane part. https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16009/nsf16009.jsp#q1 https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16009/nsf16009.jsp#q1 https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#753 https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#753